Improvement in hemmers for sewing-machines



H. GOEBEL.

Hemmer for Sewing Machies. N0.'47,632. Patented May 9, 1865.

IT/V55 Sis UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY GOEB'EL, 0E NEW YoEK, N. Y. y

IMPROVEMENT IN HEMMERS FOR SEWING.MACHINES.

`To all 'whom 'it may concer-n:

Be it known that I, HENRY GOEBEL, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvementin Sewing-Machine Hemmers; .and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the construction vand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga partot' this speciication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ot acone-shapetl scroll, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section ofthe same.

The nature. of my invention consists in constructing a hemmer in ,such a simple form as to enable an operator with little or no eXpe rience to hem cloth andgarments wthoutditiculty. To eiect this object I construct a cone-shaped scroll, through which the edge of the cloth passes, with a wing upon which the cloth rests. This scroll and wing are represented on the drawings by the Figs. 2 and 3, vand also by the letter A on Fig. 1. l attach this scroll tothe guide part of the heminer, Inaiked B, by rivets, solder, or other suitable means; or I may construct them both ot' one piece of metal. To the center. of this coneshaped scroll I secure a rigid rod or wire, which forms at its line ofjunction with said scroll an angle or bearing against which the edge of the cloth abuts. The cloth is thus positively restrained from folding upon itself beyond the proper degree, and an additional guide is seliemmer the operator can hold the cloth with a greater roll or fold than is actually wanted at the point where it is to be helnmed and no bad result will follow, i'or this guide, actingiu conjunction with the lessening form of the scroll as the cloth reaches the bottom thereof,

`will gradually unroll the cloth and only allow it to pass to the needle with the required amount of' roll or fold. After the cloth has left the needle it isheld against the straight upright guide, marked D. Now, as the rod G serves all the purposes of an additional guide, it will be lperceived that by my device I secure two positive guides for the edge of the cloth-to wit, one within the scroll'aud before it reaches the needle, and one outside of and beyond the scroll and after the said 'edge has What I claim as new ot' my invention, and

desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination-with a cone-shaped scroll, the center guide, C, constructed and operated as and for the purposes specilied,substantially as described.

HENRY 'GOEBEL Witnesses:

J. C. SMITH, FRED B. GINN. 

